The work focuses on the dual nature of  “home” as a space for care and work. Not only domestic labor that consumes energy and time, but also home as a space for artistic labor for people like me who are caregivers and use the same space for care and work. Perhaps the idea of institutionalization of the domestic space as home “creates a sense of detachment from our own safe homes; deeming us no longer able to see our intimate domestic spaces for what they are or used to be” excerpt from domestic mimicry by Sanabel Abdelrahman.

In this project I try to show the blurriness of the lines between work and care through playing with  found archival photos in my mobile. I search my archive of personal photos, specifically found pictures where I have been photographed by my kids while they use my mobile. Almost most of the pictures are taken while I do home chores or art work or trying to do both together. Some of them are taken random while I am cooking, or doing home chores, and others were taken while I am trying to get dressed for shooting myself but I got distracted by home responsibilities or playing with my kids. Every picture is taken several times, as kids  keep pressing the button taking the same photo but with different gestures. So I am interested in showing every photo with its several trials in series that include slightly different details or movement or different zoom.



Courtesy @ mykids (Alia and Hassan)